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Escape quotes, backslashes, line breaks, tabs, and control characters for safe use inside a JSON string. Everything runs locally in your browser.
Escape a JSON document or other text for placement between JSON string quotes.
Your text stays on this device.
JSON strings use backslash sequences for characters that would otherwise break the string syntax. This tool converts quotes, backslashes, newlines, tabs, carriage returns, and other control characters into valid escaped content.
The result intentionally omits the surrounding quotation marks. Paste it between a JSON string's opening and closing quotes, or use JSON Unescape to restore the original text.
Readable Unicode text such as accented letters and emoji remains unchanged because JSON supports it directly. Characters required by JSON syntax are escaped.
No. JSON escaping protects string syntax with backslashes. URL encoding represents characters for use in URLs with percent-encoded bytes.